The monthly University of Florida survey released Tuesday shows consumer confidence jumped up to 82 in the month of June. That's on a scale of 2 to 150 benchmarked to 1966 at a value of 100.

Chris McCarty, director of the center that does the survey, said the jump was a surprise. The survey had shown consumer sentiment remaining in the same range since the end of the Great Recession in 2009.

He said that the jump was surprising given a rise in unemployment and a slowdown in housing starts.

McCarty also warned that trends show that the state recovered much more strongly after recessions in the '90s and the early part of this century.